Emes Ve-Emunah

There is probably a lot going on in the mind of a Baal Teshuva that is left unsaid - but ought to be.

The reaction of Cardinal George was almost identical to the response of Orthodox Jewish institutional leaders.

No one has a monopoly on the truth.

Many of my critics ask me why I don’t focus on the problems in the Modern Orthodox community.

Once again, I am impressed by the level headed approach taken by a moderate Charedi.

If this is not a Chilul HaShem, I don’t know what is.

Lipschutz goes completely off the reservation ranting about the Post and the antisemitic world.

The IDF Haredi draft is "a cynical attempt at social engineering."

Social media will, in the long run, hinder us, as we mistake Facebook comments for agents of growth.

Rav Chaim Kanievsky couldn't possibly have said it with an understanding of the case's real context.

Haredi rabbinical leaders see the Czarist conscription now in Israel's draft.

The Charedi rabbinic leadership not only does not express gratitude for what Herzl created, they condemn him as an evil man.

The Charedi ranks are growing exponentially with every new generation.

I don’t know how observant Mr. Brooks is, but I do know he understands what being Jewish means.

Rabbi Metzger’s less than honorable reputation was known long before he ran for that position.

Marvin Schick called Rabbi Frankfurters’s response "breathtaking in its mean spiritedness."

“I have daughters to marry off and the husbands they want to marry will not accept daughters of someone who is working!”

Even the subject of sexual relations is discussed quite candidly and in my opinion quite beautifully.

The government’s insistence on a core curriculum is considered an attack against the Torah.

I believe this is the first religious leader to have served a 16 year sentence for ‘raping, sodomizing and sexually assaulting a child relative…

To see such dire poverty among those whose values are supposed to be the highest among us - makes you question your own values.

Not only did Jonathan Rosenblum criticize Rabbi Lopatin, he criticized the British Chief Rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis for accepting an invitation to Limmud.

“Orthodox birthrates in just the last few years have been soaring,” said Jewish sociologist Steven M. Cohen. “The sky is falling for the rest of the population.”

There was mixed seating. You got to sit with your spouse.

Prominent members of the Lakewood community publicly vilified him - in writing - as a Moser (someone who informs on a fellow Jew to the authorities).

For me, Conservative Judaism is not the answer to the future of Judaism.

Rabbi Grylak blames the Israeli Yated -- specifically naming its editor Nati Grossman for fomenting enmity and violence by vilifying anyone that does not agree with extremist views.

The Dvar Torah I gave yesterday at my grandson Shimon Greenland’s Bar Mitzvah.

Rabbi Weiss wrote: "Israel as a state should give equal opportunities to the Conservative and Reform movements."

The defacto infallibility of "gedolim" alienates “both those who were brought up frum and especially for those who were not.”